Children Playing
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Myers was particularly known for his paintings of children at play in the parks, playgrounds, and streets of the Lower East Side. Though he was often accused of “cleaning up” his tenement children, depicting them with a “picture book” quality that belied the dinginess of their poor neighborhood, Myers preferred to focus on their youthful abandon and merriment rather than on any sordidness of their immediate environment.
Caption
Jerome Myers American, 1867–1940. Children Playing, ca. 1915. Graphite on beige, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper, Sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, 40.694. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 40.694_bw.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Children Playing
Date
ca. 1915
Medium
Graphite on beige, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right, in graphite: "Jerome Myers"
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt
Accession Number
40.694
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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